Duncan Scott/DScott@News-Herald.comHawkenÕs Micah Simpson swims the 200-yard freestyle at the Chagrin Valley Conference meet Saturday at HawkenÕs Holtrey Pool. Simpon won the event in a meet-record time of 1:43.18.

Duncan Scott/DScott@News-Herald.comHawken's Henry Senkfor swims the breaststroke in the 200-yard individual medley Saturday at the CVC Championships at Hawken. Senkfor won the event with a time of 1:59.93.

A seemingly endless row of folding chairs lined the pool deck Saturday during the Chagrin Valley Conference meet at Hawken.

If a game of musical chairs broke out, only one school was winning that race on this afternoon, and it won't take many guesses to figure out which one.

The host Hawks swept the team championships -- the boys with 314 points and 11 top-three finishes to outdistance runner-up Chagrin Falls (198), and the girls overwhelming their league foes once more with 415.5 points, 46 more than Kenston (203) and Chagrin (166.5) combined.

Just another day at the home office in Chester Township.

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On the boys side, Hawken junior Henry Senkfor helped lead the charge by sweeping the 200-yard individual medley and 100 backstroke for his first two career CVC individual titles and also opening the winning 200 medley and 400 free relays. Senkfor, who was fourth a year ago at state in the Division II 500 freestyle, cut 1.24 seconds from his runner-up IM finish at CVCs last winter and 0.72 in the back.

"In this meet today, that's all I wanted to do," said Senkfor of going sub-2:00 in the IM. "I had my eye on (Chagrin senior Austin Quinn's) record a little bit, but I'm happy that I was under two minutes. That was my goal.

"(The back) is not my best time this year. I slipped a little bit on my start, but I'm still really happy I won the event. I didn't win anything last year, so I'm really happy to have a couple of individual titles as well."

Displaying a propensity to score well in all events this year, Senkfor is hopeful the Hawks can make a run at their first boys district title since 1991.

"That is all we want to do this year," Senkfor said. "We haven't won in 22 years, and so to get the district title would just mean everything. That would be crazy."

Chagrin Falls freshman Jason Quinn had a memorable CVC debut, taking the 500 free and coming back minutes later to swim a 23.87 split on the first-place 200 free relay. In the 500, Hawken's Liam Oznowich led most of the way after going out hard in the opening 75, but Quinn -- in a well-executed swim -- bided his time with steady splits and was able to slip past Oznowich late to win in 5:01.23.

"I was really focusing on trying to not go out too fast and not being able to catch up in case I was behind," Quinn said. "It's really hard when you're into the 500 and you're out with him and you're feeling really tired during the end, so I really wanted to be able to have the endurance to come back on him."

On the girls side no one was coming back on Hawken as the Hawks swept all but one swimming event. North Carolina recruit Sarah Koucheki took the 50 free (24.29) for her third career CVC title in that event and the 100 free with a 52.50 for her third straight league crown there.

"It's definitely fun," said Koucheki, who graduates as an eight-time CVC individual event champion, of competing in sprint free. "With sectionals, districts and state, we swim the same thing over and over again. It's nice to mix it up.

"Everyone was a little off their best times, but overall we won the meet, which is nice to do."